Katie Sweeney

Chairman & CEO, AIME

Katie Sweeney
Chairman and CEO, AIME

Katie Sweeney is the Chairman and CEO of the Association of Independent Mortgage Experts. Since 2020, Katie has overseen the day-to-day operations of the AIME team by spearheading partnership development, advocacy & lobbying efforts, membership growth initiatives, and business analytics.

After joining AIME as the Executive Vice President of Strategy, she spearheaded partnerships with dozens of top wholesale mortgage lenders and industry vendors to provide real-time support and exclusive access to mortgage brokers with the launch of the Brokers Are Better Network.

Since becoming Chairman & CEO in 2021, Katie’s leadership efforts have positively influenced the entire wholesale mortgage channel. She’s forged connections with dozens of state and congressional lawmakers, proliferated broker access to industry-leading technology, expanded mortgage brokers’ skill sets with curated educational programs, launched advocacy initiatives leading in industry-wide legislative and regulatory change, and helped support and grow the wholesale channel helping to level the playing field between retail and wholesale in national policy, expanding broker awareness on a massive scale, and providing 65,000+ AIME members with the resources to grow and sustain their businesses.

She has overseen the development of the best-in-class AIME Member Portal, launched mentorship and job placement services, created ease and accessibility for the community to contribute to diversity initiatives through AIME’s Broker Action Coalition (BAC), established political influence with the Broker Action Coalition Political Action Committee (BACPAC), established state-by-state lobbying representation with the AIME State Captains Program, and the helped open more brokerages and grow the channel with the Spark Small Business Grant Program.

Katie’s contributions to the growth and success of the wholesale channel have been noted by many leading industry publications:

MPA Mortgage Global 100 list – 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
MPA Elite Women – 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023.
HousingWire Women of Influence – 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
HousingWire Vanguard Award – 2022
Inman’s Best of Finance Award – 2023

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